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66 STRIPPING THE GURUS
Thence followed Bhagavan’s “speaking in tongues” with his local,
polyester-wearing congregation. Also followed an affair with a
blond, teenage choir girl “in tight blue jeans,” which got Das—in
his forties at the time—branded and counseled as a “fornicator” by
the church.
None of that latter disrepute, however, could shake the exyogi’s
inner peace:
I felt completely saved and totally free. The freedom I had
felt in that tantric sexual experience with the choir girl was
like being with Mary and Jesus (Das, 1997).
Praise! “Gimme that ol’ time religion,” “ménage a Trinity,” etc.
Further, by Das’ own (1997) admission: Alcoholism, AA, a
nearly six-figure income selling insurance, another “wild ‘n’ nekkid”
Scandinavian teenager, and back into smoking pot and doing
magic mushrooms. Finally turned on, tuned in and dropped out of
the business world, rediscovered himself as “Bhagavan Das” the
mystic, hooked up with another eighteen-year-old girl whom he
took as both a lover and disciple, etc.
All of which, one must admit, is still markedly less eyepopping—by
California standards, at least—than was Das’ earlier
cooking of (energy-transferring) placenta soup for his wife (which
she, and he, ate) after the births of two of their children, during his
yogic days.
“Been here, done that ... what now?”
Indeed, “What now?”